Fender for cars.



No. 740,129. PATENTED SEPT.- 29, 1903.

J HASKINS FENDER FOR CARS.

APPLIOATIOILIILED FEB. 21. 1903.

Patented September 29, 1903,

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HASKINS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FENDER FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,129, datedSeptember 29, 1903. 7

Application filed February 21, 1903. Serial No. 144,428. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN HASKINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Fenders for Cars, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Oars used on tracksin the streets and run by electricity andautomobile-cars in order to lessen their danger to pedestrians require afender. v

This invention has for its object the production of an automatic fenderfor use in connection with cars suchv as stated whereby a person comingin contact with the fender cannot be run over by the wheels of the car,but will be picked up and carried forward with the car until the latteris stopped.

My improved fender comprises a frame and a plurality of platforms, eachpivoted on or with relation to the frame and one platform pivoted to theother, and the innermost of the two platforms has a hinged nose. Theframe will preferably be so constructed and applied.

to the car-body, at either end thereof, that it may be shoved intoor'under the platform of the car when the car is going in one direction,the frame being pulled out to make the fender operative when the car ismovingin an opposite direction. V

Figure 1 represents a sufficient portion of one end of a street-railwaycar with my fender in position to enable my invention to be understood,the full lines showing the fender in its inoperative position and thedotted lines showing it as operative to pick up ,a person that might belying on the roadway. Fig. 2 is a perspective View enlarged.

The car A may be of any usual or suitable shape, and a portion of thebody thereof may have a groove a, in which may be slid when desired theframe B. This frame at its outer end sustains pivots b, on which arepivoted the legs 0 of the main'platform O of the fender, said pivotbeing located between the ends of the legs 0, the extremities of saidlegs having studs 0, that enter the side bars (1 of the main part of theauxiliary platform D. The auxiliary platform has near its inner end ateach side a stud 0 that enters a slot'c in each side of the frame B. Thefront edge of the auxiliary platform D has connected to it by suitablehinges d a nose D. The device so far described is capable of operatingin two different ways.

Assuming that the main and auxiliary platforms are in the positionrepresented by full lines, Fig. 1, should the front end of themainplatform strike a person and the person should fall over on the upperside of said platform he would also fall upon the nose D of theauxiliary platform, and the latter, owing to the weight of the body ofthe person thereon, would descend into dotted-line position, Fig. 1,andfull-line position, Fig. 2, and the main platform would rise, so thatthe person would be held in a trough or basket made between the main andauxiliary platforms. Should, however, a child or person fall on thetrack in front of the approaching car, the front end of the mainplatform would strike the person, and the main platform would be turnedupwardly instantly into the dotted-line position, causing the nose ofthe auxiliary platform to be dropped onto the roadway, as representedin- Fig. 1, and the nose, properly shaped, would run under the body ofthe person and pick up said body and carry it with the caruntil the caris stopped. Having described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A car-fender comprising a frame and a main and auxiliary platform,the main platwith a hinged nose, the main'platform being pivoted withrelation to the frame and jointed to the auxiliary platform, and theauxiliary platform being movable longitudinally of the frame as and'forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signedfimy name tothis specification inthepresence'of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN I-IASKINS.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, EDITH M. STODDARD.

